I just came from the checkdomain.com site where I've been domain mining all morning (and drinking wine and listening to Judas Priest) to find out what foreign extensions to the word scientology has been registered. I come up with these additions:

Oh Jeez! I put in enough work just listing all the Co$ domain names, for now. I haven't even tackled the Co$ affiliated sites that DON'T have a website. I don't think I will. Also, no way I'm gonna start listing each individual cult member......yet. At least there is only 70,000 of them instead of the fake figure of 8 million. That does make the job more viable. I sure would to get their tax records and post 'em.

I figure I've posted about 1100 unique domains. So far about 300 are registered by CSI, and are NOT active sites. And most of the others are small business, or feeder sites that link to Co$ somehow.

Zaphod, Your list now has 1,106 sites. Assuming they cost $25 each per year to keep, that's $27,650 per year, plus the work to fill them with blather and renew them. To count your sites, I created an Excel pivot table off your list to remove a few duplicates and enable a count.

There is good news from the before-mentioned operatingthetan.com, the critic website analyzing and diagramming CoS website relationships- QUOTE: FINAL UPDATE? 8 Apr 2002: A Google search for Scientology now turns up astonishing results--a balanced representation of what is actually out there on the net, ranked by popularity. It appears that whatever remaining issues may remain, the substantive central issue--whether this search engine accurately represents web content--is at least for the moment resolved. The rest of this page should, therefore, be considered, if not obsolete, at least partially superseded by events. END QUOTE from

My comment: So Scientology tried to get "exactscientology" and many similar sites higher on Google's list than all critics' sites. This scheme appears to have been unmasked and disabled by Google. Now several critic sites are on the Google's top ten hits for the word "Scientology."

Well, at least now we know that there are at least 7968 scientologists world-wide; maybe the extra links they have on their sites are counted as members, that would explain the 3 million count, now wouldn't it?

Thanks, Lonnie. I only did the US, plus it doesn't include the higher ups in Sea Org.

Maybe they ARE counting the links as "members"

I looked at some of sites and they look about four years old. I recall that CoS came to members' homes "to create" these web pages, and simultaneously installed the "net nanny" that blocked access to mean old critic sites. Of course, CoS could have "created" the pages without getting their sticky fingers all over the members' computers. But some of these people must have gotten new computers since then, if only to play the latest "Sims" game. I'll bet THOSE computers don't have the net nanny installed! Any comments about this from recent ex-Scientologists? Thanks.